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Gregory Nixon, chief administrative officer and chief legal officer at DynCorp International, has been named to Savoy Magazine’s 2018 list of top influential African-American lawyers. Nixon is one of the lawyers named to the magazine’s 2018 Most Influential Black Lawyers list and who were acknowledged for their legal expertise and leadership, DynCorp said Monday. DynCorp CEO […] More

ManTech International has received four task orders worth up to $60 million combined to provide systems engineering and technical assistance to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The company said Monday it will support DARPA’s Strategic Technologies Office in various program areas such as sensor modernization, maritime defense, radar, communications and battle management control. The orders fall under […] More

Lockheed Martin has secured a $28.6 million delivery order to provide overhaul services for the defense management system of the U.S. Air Force‘s B-2 Spirit bomber fleet. Work under the firm-fixed price order will take place at the company’s facility in Owego, N.Y., and is expected to be finished by July 9, 2020, the Defense Department said Monday. […] More

Iron Mountain has begun a two-phase construction project to expand its campus in  Phoenix as part of efforts to address a demand for data services in the region. The company said Monday its future 550,000-square-foot multitenant facility will have a capacity of 48 megawatts and will serve multiple cloud providers as well as enterprise and public sector customers. The new […] More

The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has partnered with Turner Construction to promote workplace safety measures during construction of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Center for Cyber Security Studies in Annapolis, Md. DOL said Monday the partnership seeks to implement safety training and monitoring programs to help workers avoid injuries, illnesses and exposures to hazard in high-risk […] More

Ensco will showcase commercial off-the-shelf positioning, navigation and timing platforms at an upcoming conference the Institute of Navigation’s military division will host for the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. The company said Friday it will demonstrate the Timing, Communications and Ranging IP measurement system and the Timing, Communications and Ranging Device during the 2018 Joint Navigation Conference. JNC will take […] More

The New York State Energy and Research Authority has announced it will award up to $5 million for multiple “clean energy” proposals meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of public transportation systems. NYSERDA said Friday it seeks technologies and strategies that can help address Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s goal to decrease statewide GHG emission rate by at least 40 percent […] More

NATO’s Seasparrow Project Office has completed the first live-fire test of Raytheon‘s Evolved Seasparrow Missile system that was equipped with a new active guidance seeker. The demonstration flight saw the ESSM Block 2 variant intercept a BQM-74E Chukar aerial target drone from Northrop Grumman and came a year after completion of controlled test vehicle trials, the U.S. Navy said Friday. […] More

Austal USA has finished builder’s trials of a 10th Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport vessel the company has constructed for the U.S. Navy. The week-long test occurred at a shipyard in Mobile, Ala., and demonstrated the future USNS Burlington‘s (EPF 10) fire protection equipment, communication and navigational systems, ship propulsion, ride control, anchor handling and steerable […] More

The Army Contracting Command has drafted a solicitation notice for a potential $78 million contract for the procurement of two non-developmental tactical unmanned aerial systems and related logistics support services. A draft request for proposals posted July 2 on FedBizOpps says the contracting effort is part of the ACC-Aberdeen Proving Ground Natick Contracting Division’s plan to buy […] More

The U.S. Army is seeking technology concepts from small businesses and start-ups that can receive from $1,000 to $200,000 for proof of concept demonstrations. The Expeditionary Technology Search will include four phases and several rounds that will culminate with the capstone demonstration for officials of the Army Department, industry partners and the academia in April 2019 […] More

Boeing and Embraer have agreed to form a strategic partnership to establish a joint venture that will promote and build new applications and markets for KC-390 military multi-mission aircraft and other defense platforms and services. Nelson Salgado, executive vice president for Embraer’s financial and investor relations, said in a statement published Thursday that joint investments in […] More